Illuminated device.



J. A. KRAY.

ILLUMINATED DEVICE.

APFLICATION man MAY 4.1912.

Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

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JOHN A. KRAY, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOB TO GEORGE E. WEBER, LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

ILLUMINATED DEVICE.

Application filed May 4, 1917. seriai No. 166,443.

To all whom it may concern: 7 Be it known that 1, JOHN A. KRAY, a c1t1- Zen of the United States, and a resident-of Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Illuminated Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in illuminated devices and more particularly to decorative means for such devices as flag staffs,the object of the invention being to provide a simple novelty comprising a flag staff having a flag attached thereto and simple means for illuminating the upper end of the stafi.

A further object is to provide a portable flag structure having a decorating lamp reinovably attached to the upper end of the staff and a battery removably attached to the lower end of the staff, with interposed circuit connections,the whole being cheap to manufacture and at the same time give an attractiv and pleasing appearance.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafter set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a view of a flag and its staff, showing the application of my improvements thereto; Fig. 2 is an enlarged view partly broken away and partly in section, and Fig. 3 is a top plan view with the lamp and flag removed.

1 represents a staif which, for the sake of lightness and economy, may be made of wood, and may be provided with two longitudinal grooves 2 for a purpose hereinafter explained. A flag 3 may be attached to the upper portion of the stafi in any suitable manner.

The upper end of the staff 1 is provided with a socket 4, in the bottom of which a tack or screw 5 may be driven, and this socket also contains a threaded socket memher 6 for the plug member 7 of an incandescent electric lamp 8,-the circuit connections of the latter being efi'ected by the socket and plug member 6, 7 and the tack or screw 5.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 5, 1918.

The lower end of the staff 1 is provided with a shank 9 on which a metalv plug or base member 10 is screwed, said plug or base member being such as commonly used on incandescent electric lamps, and its respective terminals are connected, through the medium of wires 10 passing through the longitudinal grooves 2 of the staff, with the tack or screw 5 and the socket member 6 at the upper end of the staff.

The base plug 10 enters a socket member 11 secured to a dry cell 12,-the respective terminals of said socket member being connected with the respective terminals of the battery, as will be readily understood,- and the respective terminals of said socket member 11 also cooperating with the terminals of the base plug 10 on the pole.

From the construction and arrangement above described. it will be seen that the battery or dry cell 12 may be readily attached to and be supported by the lower end of the stafi that the lamp 8 may be easily attached to the upper end of the staff, and that when the battery and lamp are screwed home, the circuit connections between them will be automatically effected and the lamp lighted. When it is desired to extingui h the lamp, this may be readily accomplished by partially unscrewing the battery or the lamp to break the circuit connections, as will be readily understood.

My improvements may be cheaply manufactured and will give a pleasing, decorative and attractive appearance, when the flag is carried in a parade or otherwise displayed.

Slight changes might be made in the details of construction of my invention without departing from the spirit thereof or limiting its scope and hence I do not wish to restrict myself to the precise details herein set forth.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

1. An article of manufacture comprising a flag staff, a flag attached thereto, a socket member at the upper end of said staff, a plug member at the lower end of said staff, electric conductors connecting the terminals of the socket member with the terminals of the plug member, said staff having uideways for said conductors, an electric lamp having a plug to enter the socket member at the upper end of the stafl', and a battery having a socket member to receive the plug member at the lower end of the staff.

2. A statl" for a flag provided with longitudinal grooves, a lam socket at the upper end of said staff, an e ectric lamp nounted in said socket, a base plug secured to the lower end of the staff wires extending through the longitudinal grooves in the staff and connecting the terminals of the lamp socket with the terminals of said base plug, a battery, and a socket member secured to said battery and having its terminals connected therewith, said battery socket engaging said base plug and cooperating with the terminals thereof.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. KRAY. Witnesses JOHN KLINE, CHAS. R. DOEBLER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for fire cents, each, addressinf the Commissioner ot intents,

Washington, D. (2. 

